Senators Face Flurry of Committees and Rail Legislation
The piece surveys Senate and House dynamics as votes and committee assignments shape rail legislation and party balance. It notes potential reorganizations, the popularity of officers, and the difficulty in advancing interstate commerce reforms amid contesting vetoes, with references to Republican subcommittees and broader campaign literature.
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Jeanie
Cox
Geresa
Congress
Uty
Tmany
Raiillands
Interstate Comperce Commission
Senate
Republican National Committee
Sensior Tisma
Perry Stiewd Tist
Clarles G. Powen
Ani Seunder George DL
Dabo
Seater
Akauses Oettre
Iegcaie Maram Bidler
Mort Vaessina
Charles A Towne
Minnesota
Three pretty presents for mother from clever girls
A compact arts and crafts feature describes three inexpensive gifts a smart girl can make for mother. Projects include a clover leaf hanging pinholder, a four-cardboard handkerchief box with linen embroidery, and a heart shaped photo frame with green laureleaves and embroidered detail.
Cook's Callers at the New Year Party in the Kitchen
The article sketches a bustling New Year gathering at Cook's house with neighbors and workers dropping by. Duffy and Geohogan clash as guests arrive. talk shifts to Tyrone roots, with meals and drinks flowing. The scene becomes a regular reception as bells ring in the season.
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Duffy
Arran
Mr. Dutt
Tyrone
County Tyrone
Donnelley’s
Cook
Cal's
First Foot Superstition Shapes New Year Beliefs
The article notes the wide vogue of the first foot custom. It describes fears that households should not be entered by outsiders before the first visitor arrives and explains how the visitor’s sex and hair color affected welcome and earnings.
New Years Day Decline in Holiday Spirit Cited
The Evening Post notes waning interest in New Year's celebrations with sparse crowds and many arrests for intoxication. It laments fading customs, recalls gradual social distancing, and chronicles the city’s sober mood and collapsing holiday rituals through January 3.
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Evening Post
New England
New Year Token Exchanges Through English Royal Gifting
The piece traces New Year token exchanges from old England through Tudor times, noting royal gift rituals and extortionate sums. It cites Henry III to Henry VIII, describing lavish ceremonies and a 16th century court record showing nearly $4,000 in royal presents in Henry VIII’s twenty fourth year.
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England
America
Robert Beverly Hale
Jenry III
Harry
Henry the VIII
His Trousers Made From Papa's Old Jeans
A Memphis Scimitar note tells of a proud boy on New Year’s Day who parades in his mother sewn trousers asking the corner grocer to guess the material. The grocer guesses broadcloth, then corduroy, then jeans, only for the boy to reveal the jeans are cut from his papa’s old ones, a cheerful childlike triumph.
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Papa
Memphis Scimitar
Man admits aging as calendar leaves fall away
Facetious remark about an office boy taking a day off opens a note on aging. A man confesses growing old while joking about calendar leaves. The Globe’s tone reflects witty, observational humor about aging and the predictable in human nature.
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Richson Globe
Attack on Subig Garrison Draws Marine Reinforcements
Mania December 27 Gen Santa Ana led insurgents estimated at 309 to assault the Subig garrison. Marines from Olongapo reinforced the fort, Filipinos suffered several deaths, American casualties were reported as none. Reinforcements from Manila, including the Forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry and marines, were dispatched to bolster Subig.
Latent Markets Report From The Carters Trade
Latent TODAY'S MARKETS reports from the Carters Trade with fluctuating stock figures from T Drake's exchange. Cattle steady at 4.35 to 4.75, hogs strong around 3.95 to 4.30, pork data incomplete, wheat price 6.95 noted in Toledo dispatch.
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Associa Press
Fights with Rebels Reported in Philippines Engagements
General Otis reports numerous engagements with insurgents in the Philippines following General Lawton's death. Casualties were heavy for the enemy, with several American wounded and multiple rifles captured or destroyed. Also noted is the death of scout Busared Underwood, famed from the Army of Northern Virginia.
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Otis
Philippines
Wasninetos
Manila
Lawton
San Mateo
Kinan
Breckenridge
Montalban
Cochett
Zambaiss
Bell
Reed
Hughes
Iloilo
Brownell
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Jaro
Panerville Arms
Davis
Arito
Neuva Viscaya
Meade
Calambra
Batan
Comfort
Spence
Nayson
Wes
Sulnyg
Oris
Wasntscron
Busared Underwood
Northern
Virginia
BR. H. Sue
John R. Mosby
Forty-Third Virginia Cavalry
Death of a Corporal Reported Arrives en route to Manila
Washington December 27 Word was received by the war department that the transport Maine with Colonel Murray and the Forty third volunteer infantry arrived at Singapore on her way to Manila Colonel Murray reported the death of Corporal Kerrigan of Company B on the 15th inst of alcoholic poisoning
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Washivgton
War Department
Maine
Murray
Forty-third Volunteer Infantry
Singapore
Manila
Kerrigan
Hearing on injunction against J O A M tax postponed
In Dauphin county court Derry council of Hummelstown sought to restrain state and national officials of the Junior Order of American Mechanics from collecting the national per capita tax. The hearing was postponed until January 4. An application for pardon was made to President McKinley for Joseph Wilkins and Howard Butler, inmates at Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia, for oleomargarine law violations.
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Washington
Joseph Wilkins
Howard Butler
Moyameusing
Philadelphia
Mcinley
Deaths Reported From Typhoid at Camp Cuba and City
General Wood in Havana informs the war department of Walter Rees of Company G Eighth Infantry dying at Camp Columbia Quemados from typhoid fever. Allen EB. Rorke a prominent contractor and Republican politician dies at his Harrisburg home. builder of the new state capitol there.
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Wood
Havana
War Department
Walter Rees
Eighth Infantry
Columbia
Quemados
Allen If Rarte
PrinapreLiiia
Allen EB. Rorke
Republian
Harrisburg
Died of Hydrophobia and Train Fatality Reported
Died of hydrophobia Abraham Lefevre a Greenland farmer aged 45 died after a cat bite four months earlier in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Mrs Samuel Valleau aged 50 wife of a retired actor was killed by a train at Avon near Asbury Park New Jersey while crossing the tracks. A riot among seven Negroes on a Morrisana trolley car left one man fatally shot and two others seriously wounded.
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Lancaster
Abraham Lefevre
Greenland
New Yor
Samuel Valleau
Avon
Asbury Park
N. J
New Yours
Morrisana
Blind man chokes wife to death in Baltimore home
Franklin B. Livingston, a blind man aged about 41, strangled his wife Rosie Livingston at their Baltimore residence 1160 Columbia Avenue. He claimed she tried to smother him.
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Baltimore
Franklin B. Livingston
Rosie Livingston
Columbia, Avenue
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